The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber
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The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber
Forget the selfies and social media updates of everyone at their best, three-time New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber’s new podcast, The Confessional, invites guests to share stories about times they were at their worst. Guests talk honestly about what led to that moment, what they l...
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Meg Lavery, Storyteller and Teacher
“I knew that I had to do something, I was going to have to let him know, but I didn't let him know. I became paralyzed with fear of telling him.”
Crushed Episode 1: The Feel-Good Story
In 1998, fans across the country fell in love with the home run race as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased baseball immortality. Sportswriter Joan Nie...
Rev. Jeff Grant, Minister and Co-Founder of Progressive Prison Ministries
“I was dressed up looking the part, but deep inside, I was just vacant. I just was not someone I was proud of anymore.”
Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div....
Wilhelm Verwoerd, Researcher and Facilitator
“We would also be very conscious of preaching anti-communism because people were saying that the African National Congress, you know, former President...
Nadia Bolz-Weber: "Panic on the Road to Jericho"
“I spent the entire time praying, and cursing, and praying and cursing.”
Enjoy this bonus episode featuring a story Nadia Bolz-Weber told live a...
Elizabeth Lesser, Co-Founder of Omega Institute
"And that was the moment ... where I was like, 'Girl, you can be a good mother and a happy, embodied woman, but you can't be a good mother and a liar....
Dr. Ray Christian, Storyteller and Fulbright Specialist
"I got the super squad, the dirty dozen. Nobody needs to know what's going on here; I'm handling everything."
Dr. Raymond Christian is a retired...
Joshua Harris, Storyteller and Author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye"
"If you can call people to a higher standard and tap into that fear, that ‘I'm not trying hard enough. I'm not really loving God enough. I'm not sacri...
Claire Bidwell Smith, Grief Therapist and Author
“I just remember the feeling of having his arms around me, and I just felt so sickened that I had chosen this instead of my mother.”
Sarah Edmondson, Actor and Former Member of NXIVM
“I essentially told her to override that very important internal compass called your gut instinct. And I told her that that wasn't accurate. She was j...
Maria Hinojosa, Journalist
“You know, it comes down to a human error, but one of massive proportions because you're dealing with humanity and people's lives.”
Maria is the...
Amber J. Phillips, Storyteller and Reproductive Justice Activist
“My attachment to success prevented me from doing the one thing that I value the most in my life, which is showing up for other black women.”
Am...
Jonathan Williams, Writer and Pastor
“So what I ended up doing was being an incredible dick to my father. That's what I ended up doing.”
Jonathan Williams is the Lead Pastor of Fore...
Joel Leon, Storyteller
“But like being a father, I have to excel at that because a lot of people were expecting me not to.”
Joel was born and raised in the Bronx. He i...
Kasey Anderson, Singer/Songwriter
“I truly believed that we had gotten Bruce Springsteen to commit to this benefit compilation. And so when I went to present that to the group, I went...
Abby Wambach, Soccer Star
“I didn't feel like, oh, I need to call my lawyer or anything like that. I felt like I was totally with it. And then I did the breathalyzer and I can'...
Darin Strauss, Writer
“And then all the emotions sort of flowed and I started crying in a way I don't think I have since or probably didn't before. I was just sort of heavi...
Wilhelm Verwoerd, Researcher and Facilitator
“We would also be very conscious of preaching anti-communism because people were saying that the African National Congress, you know, former President...
Forgiveness and Reconciliation with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
“So it's not necessarily an overnight thing. And the only person, the only person or people who get to decide if a person should be forgiven, are the...
Melissa Febos, Memoirist
“You know, it was like very hot - with that particular hotness of a terrible, terrible thing driven by desperation beyond the immediate situation.”
Mishka Shubaly, Singer/Songwriter
“I held Nate's face as far away from me as I could so that he couldn't hit me. And then with my right hand I tried to destroy him”
Mishka has an...
Amy Brenneman, Movie Star
“I just was super hungry sexually. I was super out there. I just didn't want to be the victim. You know, I wanted to run the show. And I did.”
A...
R Eric Thomas, Columnist at Elle.com
"So I just googled, 'how to tell if your boyfriend is a Satan worshiper.'"
Eric lives in Baltimore with his husband. He’s a playwright, a column...
Theresa Thames, Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University
“On the playground, people would be singing this song, Yo Mama's on Crack Rock. … And I love that song because I love chanting it and everything. And...
Chris Schuhmacher, Software Developer
“I came into software development relatively late in life. You know, I'm in my mid 40s and my training actually started in 2014 inside the walls of Sa...
Lenny Duncan, Lutheran Pastor
“I run into someone in Boulder, and they're like you want to do some speed? And I was like, ‘hell, yeah.’ And I do some speed, and I just fall off the...
Megan Phelps-Roper, Former Member of Westboro Baptist Church
“We would see something terrible that happened, like if there was an earthquake or a fire or floods or hurricanes, or a celebrity died. Everybody arou...
The Confessional Trailer
The first season of The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber will drop weekly starting April 21.
Do you have something you’re not proud of that yo...